AGM and Awards Ceremony 2022
At this year’s AGM we heard the Chair’s Address from Professor David Duff, wherein he outlined the challenges and opportunities that the EA encountered in 2021. The business of the AGM proceeded smoothly, with a new trustee (Kirstie Hewett) welcomed to the Board. We thanks David Adger and Tricia Adams for their service, as they stepped down from their position as trustees.
We were delighted to welcome poet, academic, and memorist Hannah Lowe as our guest speaker. Hannah’s latest book, The Kids, a Poetry Book Society ‘Choice’ for Autumn, won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope, 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Two new chapbooks are forthcoming in May with Hercules Editions. She teaches Creative Writing at Brunel University @hannahlowepoet
We celebrated all our prize winners at the Awards Ceremony, and announced the new cohort of Fellows. We were also treated to a poetry reading from Layli Long Soldier, the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize.
